RI-VIS D3.2 Second outreach and partnering event

The Latin America-Europe Symposium on Research Infrastructures was organised by the RI-VIS and EU-LAC ResInfra projects, and brought together delegates from Latin American and European research infrastructures (RIs), science policy organisations and research institutions to discuss opportunities and challenges for RI cooperation between Latin America and Europe. International cooperation in science and technology is an important part of addressing major global issues like climate change, infectious diseases, food security, and natural disasters. RIs are organisations, which provide access to state-of-the-art technologies, resources, services and expertise to scientists. The RI-VIS project consortium consists of RIs across scientific disciplines to work together more efficiently and to increase their visibility among the scientific user community, global RIs and science policy organisations. RIs provide such coordination by offering a transparent access procedure to key facilities, resources and expertise on the basis of scientific excellence. They empower research beyond the individual research capacity of different countries, economic sectors, or institutions. We invited representatives from scientific communities, RI operational staff, funding agencies as well as policy makers to join and discuss opportunities for working together with the aim to bring together the right people to create collaborations and initiate networks for the benefit of all stakeholders. The RI-VIS and EU-LAC ResInfra projects share common goals to build sustainable partnerships in research infrastructure between Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean